Even the All-Pro choice on his resume isn’t going to assist De’Vondre Campbell escape a quitter label, one former NFL star mentioned.
Campbell, who began 12 video games for the 49ers this season however was changed by a wholesome Dre Greenlaw, refused to go within the recreation Thursday after Greenlaw was re-injured.
He walked off the sector and again to the locker room within the third quarter, and head coach Kyle Shanahan later mentioned Campbell received’t play once more for the 49ers this season.
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“I believe his repute is completed,” former Pro Bowl linebacker Shawne Merriman mentioned on the TMZ Sports TV Show. “I’d be shocked if one other crew decides to select him up after the season as a result of now he’s going to be deemed unreliable.”
Merriman defined how groups watch movie collectively the day after a recreation and seen “who stop, who didn’t run to the ball, who gave up. And these guys get labeled proper then and there.”
It received’t be laborious to determine Campbell — who was a First-Team All-Pro with the Packers in 2021 — since he received’t even be on the movie.
“When you’ve gotten a man blatantly refusing to go in a recreation, there’s no fixing that,” Merriman mentioned. “There’s plenty of issues that occur within the locker room — fights, arguments, disagreements, all types of stuff that guys ultimately recover from. They should not getting over it when somebody quits and isn’t going within the recreation. That a part of it isn’t fixable, in my view.”
Merriman, the previous first-round draft choose of the Chargers, appears to be spot on regardless of being out of the NFL since 2012.
49ers cornerback Charvarius Ward anticipated Campbell to be reduce quickly and tight finish George Kittle known as Campbell’s determination “silly” and “very immature” whereas indicating that he hopes to by no means have a teammate who does that once more.
“It’s considered one of these items that you just construct up your profession — you do the whole lot potential — and this one incident is what you’re going to be labeled as going ahead it doesn’t matter what occurs,” Merriman mentioned.
He continued, “There’s no getting out of this. It’s a disgrace as a result of that one second to decide sort of erases the whole lot you’ve achieved in your profession.”
The Ravens suspended receiver Diontae Johnson for Sunday’s recreation towards the Giants for refusing to enter the crew’s final recreation earlier than a bye week.
